S3: Managing files and folders with CrossFTP for Mac
It is hard to find a good application to manage your files and folders on S3 Amazon for MacOSX users. CrossFTP Pro is luckily one of them and believe me, I tested quite a few, including Cyberduck, Transmit and others. Therefore, I think this is an excellent moment to create a video tutorial to [...]
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The do’s and don’ts of the autostart feature
Autostart is an attribute of embedding code to determine if rich media should start to play automatically when a page is loaded. There is a bit of confusion about when to use this feature, so I’ve thrown a couple of scenarios on a heap to explain best practices.
When is autostart a bad idea?
Generally, it is [...]
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Joomla: How to serve videos based on subscription type
Here we discuss a free Joomla plugin to serve content on your site, depending on a subscription plan. For those not familiar with Joomla, you can register new users and give them a Joomla group status, like Registered, Author, Editor, Manager, etc… just as you would in WordPress.
Depending on that status, a user can do [...]
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TimedText and how to use it
TimedText is a convention to place subtitles in videos without actually embed them in the video itself. This has huge advantages over embedded (hardcoded) subtitles because you can use the same video while using different languages, depending where you show it. TimedText can be used in two ways: Closed Captions or Open Captions.
Closed Captions(CC) [...]
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How to use screenshots for poster images
Creating a custom poster image for video and audio is quite simple. In the video tutorials below I show you how to capture part of the screen and turn it into a poster image. We also add text to the poster image to make it more clear what the video or audio is about, but [...]
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And the winners of CloudBerry S3 Explorer Pro are…
As promised, here are the CloudBerry Explorer Pro winners of the contest of Spring 2010 !!! Camilia, Ivan and Krizia will now be able to use one of the most powerful S3 amazon tools around.
1. Camilia
Her comment was:
I appreciate your review. I’m not a very technically inclined person. Thanks for highlighting the features and [...]
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How to do an interview on Skype with PrettyMay
PrettyMay is a call recorder for Skype and in this article we show with video tutorials you how to configure the basic audio settings of PrettyMay and then we do an interview with Skype. First from Skype to landline phone, then from Skype to Skype. You will notice a considerable difference in quality [...]
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MWSnap, screen capture utility - review
Yesterday, I was working on a video tutorial to create poster images for video and audio. I was actually planning just to show how to create a screen shot on Windows and then extract the part that is needed. When I suddenly thought, “Let’s find free software to snapshot only the area of the screen [...]
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WIN a Pro license of CloudBerry S3 Explorer!
CloudBerryLab gave us 5 full licenses to give away to Miracle Tutorials readers, so this is your chance to win the most versatile S3 Amazon explorer on Windows today!
I wrote already quite a few articles on S3 Amazon testing out a couple of applications and CloudBerry S3 Explorer came out on top with [...]
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S3: News from the CloudFront! Private streaming video - revised
From now on, with CloudFront you can not only stream your own videos, you can make streaming videos private on top of that! In other words, you can have paid videos on your site or membership area without the fear of copying the video. You can do the same thing with expiring URLs but private [...]
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S3: Rich media plugin for Joomla 1.5
It is so far! We just launched our very own commercial plugin for Joomla “S3Media Pro” which, apart from regular media, also supports video and audio from your S3 Amazon account, including expiring URLs to protect you media against leeching and unauthorized sharing as we discussed in S3 Amazon: Protect files against unauthorized use.
The official [...]
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S3: Streaming video with CloudFront
With CloudFront, you can stream your own audio and video without using any code or installing complicated server software. CloudFront is an Amazon service which works in conjunction with your S3 Amazon account (S3 AWS).
What the service basically did so far was to serve content from your S3 account to the closest server in [...]
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S3 Amazon: Protect files against unauthorized use
Here you see how you can create expiring URLs to protect your files from leeching and this time we work with CloudBerry Explorer Pro, the competitor of S3 Browser. The Pro version does not differ from the free version when it comes to creating expiring URLs, but the free version expires after some time and [...]
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Results of a Survey on branding
Last week, I launched a survey on twitter, facebook and various forums to find out what consumers would think about 3 logo versions representing different versions of the same software. I created 3 logos, looking exactly the same, except for the background color. On the basis of those differences, I asked the readers to indicate [...]
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S3 Amazon: How to embed video in your site
You want to embed video or audio from S3 Amazon into your site? This article tells you how to deal with the code involved to get your videos and audios up and running. You can use this code in practically any cms or regular website. Now, for content management systems like Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal, [...]
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